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My Airtel Broadband connection has been down for past 2-3 days. The ADSL Link light is not working and though a technician paid a visit he went away saying that the fault is somewhere at the back..

Now, all this means that i am not going to have any boradband till the time "backend" is fixed :(. However, the bill never seems to discount non-availability of the service that Airtel so conviniently seems to forget!

I had earlier requested these guys to change my plan but they didn't bother to inform me about the procedural hiccup that came up! now broadband doesn't make you omniscient (did i spell it right?).. so i am still continuing on the older plan as nobody informed me on the issue.. though i religiously have been getting calls like - "is your internet working fine" before all this happened...

And yes, if you want to measure your broadband speed check out:http://www.dslreports.com/stest-------------------------------------------------------------------------…

Most of the applications written for Intranets rely on Active Directory (or some other sort of LDAP) to authenticate a user. Now it is extremely simple to integrate AD with ASP.NET 2.0.Read here how to.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

I am an extensive user of Sharepoint - India MVP Extranet Portal, Community Star Extranet Portal etc. There are various activities that we do from time to time that requires creation of more libraries (document, list, calendars etc.

Microsoft has released around 30 "Applications for Windows SharePoint Services" that cover custom scenarios and provide site templates for instantenously creating frameworks for each of these scenarios.

Was trying to integrate Speech into an application i wrote... i realiased there are 3 options for the same:MS Agent, Microsoft Speech Application Software Development Kit (SASDK) Version 1.0, and Speech SDK 5.1 for Windows® applicationsThis confused me. Which one to use for what?A little research lead me to this site that explains it well:http://thedotnet.com/nntp/135793/showpost.aspxSASDK is primarily meant to speech enable the ASP.NET applications and SAPI is meant for Win Forms applications. MS Agent might already be a dead technology :)Both SASDK and SAPI support TTS and voice recognition! So make your choice and get coding..-------------------------------------------------------------------------------This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

The tenets of "Code Camp" as per the site:An original Code Camp organizer, Thom Robbins, wrote a six-point manifesto: Code Camps are (1) by and for the developer community; (2) always free; (3) community developed material; (4) no fluff – only code; (5) community ownership; and (6) never occur during working hours.

We have similar events in India called DevCons and subject related Days like - Architecture Day! What stands out in this event is the large participation of industry as speakers and attendees. An unofficial estimate puts the percentage of student attendees at these events at below 25%.

In India, the profile of attendees has largely been students (except HYD) and very less participation from industry.

IMHO, we should start to invite more people from industry to participate as speakers in these events. The attendees ergo will follow for sure!-----------------------------------------…

User completes registration at the registration counter using the mobile deviceAttendee could register for the entire eventAlso, attendee should be able to select the sessions that he/she is going to attend during the eventProvide feedback to the sessions that he/ she attends. The feedback is an objective multiple choice type. Space for comments must also be maintained. Also, feedback to entire event rather than just a session should be possible.Ad Hoc meetings and requestsReports: reports should be available on how many people have attended the event / session. Also, a view into how many prospective participants are registered for a future session should be possible.

Enjoy the content with recorded webcasts even when you were not there physically attending it!-------------------------------------------------------------------------------This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.